THE FLOWERS IN THE WINDOWBOXWhen you read about the Nazis there's always this strange contradiction - their famous obsession with order, with following orders, with classification, rules, hierarchy, and all of that, is superimposed upon a regime which was most of the time in chaos, ministries c...
The question is as searing as it is fundamental to the continuing debate over Japanese culpability in World War II and the period leading up to it: "How could Japanese soldiers have committed such acts of violence against Allied prisoners of war and Chinese civilians?" During the First World War,...
Gustave Gilbert. “And it never occurred to you,” Gilbert asked Höss, “to refuse the orders that Himmler gave to you regarding the so-called ‘Final Solution’?”1 “No,” replied Höss, “from our entire training the thought of refusing an order just didn’t enter one’s head, regardless of what kind of o...
One of the most pervasive is that the German victory over the French in 1940 was made possible because of the superiority of German equipment—crucially, that the Wehrmacht had more tanks to enable them to pioneer Blitzkrieg tactics. But this is not the case. In fact, the Germans had fewer tanks t...
Which is a polite way of asking whether we were partly to blame for what happened and all the resultant misery.In practical terms, the only way of preventing the physical occupation of eastern Europe by the Red Army would have been for someone else to have occupied this territory first. That woul...
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